The Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras

Let g\mathfrak{g} be a simple finite-dimensional Lie algebra over C\mathbb{C}, let gg be its dual Coxeter number, and let A=(gg)/IA=\wedge(\mathfrak{g}\oplus\mathfrak{g})/I, where II is the ideal generated by the three canonical copies of g\mathfrak{g} in the bidegree components (2,0)(2,0), (1,1)(1,1), and (0,2)(0,2). Let AgA^{\mathfrak{g}} denote the invariant subalgebra, and let SS be its unique invariant element of bidegree (1,1)(1,1), namely S=TrV(XY)S=\operatorname{Tr}|_V(XY) for a non-trivial irreducible finite-dimensional representation VV of g\mathfrak{g}. Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture. (i) The algebra AgA^{\mathfrak{g}} is generated by SS. (ii) Sg=0S^g=0. (iii) Sg10S^{g-1}\ne 0. The conjecture concerns the invariant algebra associated with the odd superscheme cut out by the vanishing supercommutators of two copies of g\mathfrak{g}. It was proposed by Cachazo, Douglas, Seiberg, and Witten and had been proved for classical simple Lie algebras; the source paper proves it for type G2G_2 and verifies a consequence in the general case.

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Pavel Etingof and Victor Kac, “On the Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras”, arXiv:math/0305175 (2003).

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